AHR1985 {MASSTIMATE} | R Documentation |
Body Mass Estimates Using Anderson et al. (1985)
Description
This function estimates body mass based on humeral and/or femoral circumferences using the quadrupedal and bipedal equations of Anderson et al. (1985)
Usage
AHR1985(HC = NULL, FC, equation = c("bip", "quad"), data=NULL)
Arguments
HC |
an optional value or vector representing humeral circumference (in mm) |
FC |
a value or vector representing femoral circumference (in mm) |
equation |
desired estimation equation. Two possible choices: |
data |
an optional object of |
Details
If equation = "bip"
then only femoral circumference is needed. Both humeral and femoral circumference are needed to estimate body mass of a quadruped (equation = "quad"
). If a data object is specified, the mass estiamtes will be added as a column to the data.frame or matrix within that object.
Value
AHR1985 |
A numeric value or vector representing the mass estimate(s) in grams |
Author(s)
Nicolas E. Campione
References
Anderson, J. F., Hall-Martin, A. and Russell, D.A. (1985) Long-bone circumference and weight in mammals, birds and dinosaurs. Journal of the Zoological Society of London A, 207, 53-61.
See Also
QE
cQE
quadrupeds
bipeds
CM1992
CF2004
MCF2004
Examples
##Quadrupedal dinosaurs
data(dinos)
AHR1985(dinos$HC, dinos$FC, equation = "quad", data = dinos)
##Bipedal dinosaurs
data(dinosbip)
AHR1985(HC=NULL, dinosbip$FC, equation = "bip", data = dinosbip)